ALEX Lesson Plan Resources

Subject: English Language Arts (1) Title: Let's Describe! (Adjectives Lesson)Description: Students will learn what an adjective is and how to categorize adjectives using an interactive sorting game. Students will compete with each other by categorizing adjectives by color, shape, size, and kind. Students will have to read and sort the adjective word cards. The student with no adjective word cards first, wins! Furthermore, students will use magazine photographs to describe nouns and write sentences.
This is a College- and Career-Ready Standards showcase lesson plan.Subject: English Language Arts (1) Title: Down with the NounsDescription: Students will learn nouns by using an interactive sorting game. Students will compete with each other by putting noun cards down on the floor categorized by person, place, animal, or thing. Students will have to read and sort the cards. The student with no noun cards first, wins!
This is a College- and Career-Ready Standards showcase lesson plan.Subject: English Language Arts (1), or Mathematics (K - 2) Title: Guess My ShapeDescription: The students will make the connection between 2-D and 3-D shapes using modeling clay and geometric solids and participate in an interactive web lesson. Students will make predictions about what 2-D shape they think will be made when they press 3-D solids into modeling clay. They will then check their predictions.
This lesson plan was created by exemplary Alabama Math Teachers through the AMSTI project.Subject: Arts Education (1), or English Language Arts (K - 1), or Mathematics (1 - 2) Title: Who's Line Is It Anyway? Description: In this lesson students will learn about line of symmetry in real life objects. An interactive web lesson is used to engage students and give a multitude of real life examples with some interactive practice. The lesson also includes an art activity in the extension.
This lesson plan was created by exemplary Alabama Math Teachers through the AMSTI project.Subject: English Language Arts (1), or Mathematics (1) Title: I Want My Half- An Interactive Lesson Introducing FractionsDescription:
In this lesson, the children will identify parts of a whole using modeling clay, participate in an interactive web lesson, participate in an interactive web game, and construct a fraction poster. The activities are used as instructional plans to help students better understand shapes and parts of a shape up to a whole.
This lesson plan was created by exemplary Alabama Math Teachers through the AMSTI project.Subject: English Language Arts (K - 1), or Mathematics (1) Title: Telling Time to the HourDescription: This lesson helps children make a connection between the digital and analog clock. In general, the number system is based on units of ten which can sometimes make it difficult for children to realize that time is based on cycles of 60.This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls Engaged in Math and Science, GEMS Project funded by the Malone Family Foundation.Subject: English Language Arts (1), or Technology Education (K - 2) Title: Beanie Baby Habitats Collaborative ProjectDescription: With the booming market of "Beanie Baby" type stuffed animals being so prominent in students' lives, this project brings that interest into the classroom through the use of research, science, hands-on experiences, and technology. The project includes research of living things and habitats through various resources including textbookss, trade books, encyclopedias, and the Internet. It also includes a hands-on project where students design and create a habitat for a chosen living thing. Students will work collaboratively in the classroom and use communication skills to share information with another classroom using distance learning capabilities throughout the project.

Subject: English Language Arts (1), or Technology Education (K - 2) Title: WANTED: A Few Of Our Favorite AuthorsDescription: This unit is designed to spotlight the work of one children's author each month. Students explore the life and writing styles of each author studied, as well as incorporating studies of story elements in the various works.

Subject: English Language Arts (1), or Technology Education (K - 2) Title: Edible EditsDescription: During this lesson students will listen to the story Max's Wacky Taxi Day by Max Grover and edit capitalization and punctuation taken from the story. The students will have the opportunity to practice their new skills by working on the Internet.

Subject: English Language Arts (1) Title: Changing "Now" Words to "Then" WordsDescription: This interdisciplinary lesson teaches first graders to use the inflectional ending -ed to create past tense verbs from present tense verbs. As children learn to use the -ed pattern, they change familiar root words into longer words to denote past time. These words are recognized in reading comprehension as past time, in personal writing, and spelling with the -ed ending.

Subject: English Language Arts (1) Title: Compound WordsDescription: In this lesson the students will be introduced to compound words through the use of a multimedia presentation. Students will then form compound words through the use of teacher-made puzzles. Finally, the students will participate in a game in which they "catch" compound words projected from an overhead projector by using strips of white poster paper.

Subject: English Language Arts (K - 1), or Technology Education (K - 2) Title: Word a DayDescription: Word a Day allows students to develop a bank of sight words that are meaningful to them. Each student picks words to add to his/her individual word bank. The teacher can specify particular categories or let the student choose any word. The student then finds a picture or symbol to illustrate each word using a variety of resources.

Subject: English Language Arts (1) Title: Explicit Phonics Lesson for -ew and -ooDescription: This lesson covers phonemic awareness, decoding, blending, spelling patterns, and dictation. It can be used as an introduction or a follow up lesson.

Subject: English Language Arts (1) Title: Explicit Phonics Lesson for the "-ick" Word FamilyDescription: This lesson covers phonemic awareness, decoding, blending, spelling patterns, and dictation. It can be used as an introduction or a follow up lesson.